Jazz Chronicles

Thanks to writer Michelle Mercer, I had the opportunity to read her forthcoming followup to Footprints: The Life and World of Wayne Shorter ...

Yesterday's mail brought an advance copy of Italian pianist Roberto Magris' new recording, Kansas City Outbound – the last recordin...

For a time in the 1990s I conducted a number of interviews with jazz musicians who had, at one point in their careers, been much in the spot...

David Mott Quintet – Downtown Runout Toronto-based baritone saxophonist David Mott is one of my favourite musicians, and one of my favourite...

Two great stories in the news today about vital, New York-based saxophonists who have fought back from health issues. David Adler has a post...

So far, we've chronicled festival suspensions and sponsorship woes, but today brings bad news on yet another level: poor ticket sales. L...

Jazz Journal billed itself as "The World's Greatest Jazz Magazine." It was certainly among the longest lived, publishing cont...

If you live in a winter-bound place like me, the concept of summer begins to look very good just about now. Even with a long weekend approac...

After last year's stunning upset by Herbie Hancock it was inevitable that jazz would return to its usual position as poor cousin at this...

Last February, I caught the debut show in the SFJAZZ Collective's tour of their Wayne Shorter program in Portland. As noted in a couple ...

Apropos of nothing, here's a piece from 2005 that I wrote about Phil Nimmons. I can't recall where this ended up published, but read...

When I was a fledgling jazz fan around 1970 and just discovering DownBeat magazine I was torn on the question of the five-star rating syste...

Something pianist Nancy Walker said to me last night between sets of her gig with bassist-bandleader John Geggie and drummer Matt Wilson (wh...

Rumors have been circulating for several weeks about the financial crisis facing Festival Network , the company – formerly based in New York...

I'm copying an email from AUM Fidelity owner Steven Joerg concerning saxophonist David S. Ware's urgent requirement for a kidney tra...

A recurring feature online at the New York Times website – for my money (well, it's free, actually), the best website anywhere – is a ...

Like New York's Knitting Factory before it, the San Francisco branch of Yoshi's has decided that other forms of music might be more ...

For the second consecutive issue, the venerable Coda magazine – now billing itself as "Jazz Understood" – is mining the legends o...

An old friend from my radio days hipped me to Last.fm today and I've been glued to it all evening. Regular Jazz Chroniclers will remembe...

Yet another annual jazz festival – the Jacksonville Jazz Festival – is in trouble. The event, which has had challenges holding on to both ma...